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Zanesville weekly signal. (Zanesville, Ohio), 1902-02-06

Zanesville weekly signal. (Zanesville, Ohio), 1902-02-06 page 1

- ') n o VOL 39 NO. 3. ZANESVILLE. OHIO. THUHSCA FEBRUARY 6, 1902. 75 CENTS A YEAR. o JSV A. A. A FIGHTING FLAMES BUILDING COLLAPSED' DURING 3T. LOUIS BLAZE. NINE FIREMEN ARE CRUSHED V Structure Gave Way Without Warning Burying Gallant Lad Beneath the Debris. St. Louis, Feb. S. -A Are broke out in the 5-stary stone and brick building located at 314 Chestnut street, occupied by the American Tent ana Awning company. While the firemen were fighting the blaze, the structure suddenly collapsed, killing at least nine firemen and -injuring half a dosen more. The dead: August Thiery, rst - assistant chief; Michael Kehoe, assistant of Company 13; Daniel Steel, foreman of Company 12; William Dundon, pipeman; Charles Krening, plpeman; Patrick Herein, assistant foreman: three, ripemen, names unknown. Bert. ousVy injured: Frank Lingo, driver of i aerial truck; Monroe Moore, Patrick McCarthy, William Julleb and William Wand, firemen. . The building in which the fire orig inated was located In the aid business section of the city, and was about 50 years old. The blaze, which proved bard one for the fire department to master, had been gotten practically undr control, when suddenly, with ab- solutelyno warning, It collapsed and came down in a heap with a noise that could be heard for blocks. Three pipe men at work on the second Boot had difficulty in managing a line of hose, and Assistant Chief Thiery was on his way with three of his men to lend them aid when the bunding col lapsed. The men went down with tons v of twisted Iron, brick, stone and wooden columns enveloping them. Chief Swihgley, who was in front of the building directing bis men, had a miraculous escape from death. As the front wall fell outward he scurried across the street and fell under this aerial truck. The truck -was covered with debris and partly wrecked, and it is to its sheltering protection the tiMiH itu;iV jiriver of the truck, was directing a streamon the , fire from the aerial ladder, about 40 feet' from the ground, when the wall fell. A portion of tha debris struck him. and he was hurled through the air to the ground, receiving probably , fatal la- Juries. Chief Swingley put his entire force to work at once in an effort to rescue the burled firemen, but although the men worked like demons they have not been able to reach them. - It Is a certainty that all are1 dead, as tons of debris cover then.'' Folowtog is a list of the losses: American Tent and Awning company, f 25,000; McLean estate, loss on building, $35,000; Her man Ruppelt, Job printer, $10,000; scattering, $5,000. MRS. SOFFEL'S REQUE8T. Dee Not Want Punishment Administered at Her Old Horns. Butler, Pa., Feb. 6. Mrs. Peter Sof-fel desire a change of venue when she faces trial. She tearfully made this request of Assistant District Attorney John B. Robb, Jr., of Allegheny county, in the hospital here. She said she la' willing to meet any fate the law may place upon her, but does not want the punishment administered in the courthouse across the street from her old home. Mr. Soffel told the attorney that she had been charged with crime against the state; she had never .mned. She pleaded that her act was brought about through her sympathy for the Biddies and not her lore. Mr. Robb told her he was a friend of her husband and would like to lighten the burden of his Sorrow and disgrace, but could not make any definite promise to her at this time. SLEEPWALKER FREEZES. Found Desd In Night Clothes Lying in Fence Corner, Washington, Ind., Feb. 5. Clad only in his night clothes Robert Haydon aged 80, was found in a fence corner yesterday frozen to death. He resided with Joseph Williams, 12 miles southeast of this city, retired at the usual time Monday night and his Absence from the house was not discovered until yesterday, when Mrs. Williams went to his room to call him for breakfast. Mr. Haydon was a somnambulist, .,r 4 KoiioH tht t walked out of, the house while asleep, and when he awoke he could not find nis way back to the house. Shortage Discovered. Arcanum, O, Feb. 6. Webb Thompson, assistant cashier of the First National bank, is charged with being . i u. '.wnt. iumu-It J4.600. He I wes one of the most prominent and best tboueht of men in the town. State Examiner Alcorn of Cincinnati discov- eted the shortage. Thompson finally J acknowledged the defalcation and J promised that he would make good I to pass a. va wiuis, wnen iao sua i to tans ner ana mae ner lorever nsp-,ha , I discharged. Willis leaves' a family, jpy. In one letter she said: "If you THAT BID TO KRUGER. Tranavaal League Official Discusses It ProbabI Effect Chicago, Feb. 6. Referring to the resolution offered la congress by Rep resentative Cochran, invlting President Kruger of the South African re public to visit the United States as the guest or the nation, Peter Van VHssingen, treasurer of the Chicago branch , American Transvaal league. said: "If the resolution Is adopted ft will have a powerful influence for good In the peace negotiations now pending. Rewiring President Kroger in hie o racial capacity would be notice to the world that the United State does not look upon paper annexations as final while there is an effective force in the Held. To thus show our friendship for the Boers would have a great moral Influence in Great Britain, where the masses are tooled Into be ttering that the sympathies of the peo ple of this country are with England In the war. Shatter this belief and you remove the main support of Cham berlain and bis adherent. BROOKS HULL E BEVERLY MAN MEMBER OF THE ILL-FATED CREW. "' , r"" TOW BOAT BOILERS EXPLODt The "J. W. Ailes" Wrecked In Lock No. J at Pittsburg Many Vic tlms From Ohio. Pittsburg, Feb. 6. At about 1:15 a. m., just as the Pittsburg harbor tow- boat J. W. Ailes had passed through lock No. i, her boilers exploded throwing her crew of 14 in all direc tions. Three of the crew are known to be fatally hurt, and only five others have been accounted for. Fatally In jured: ' Joseph Rankin, deckhand 'Brownie," watchman; Mrs. Maria Walker, colored, cook. All are horrl bly scalded and burned. The other members of the crew are: Captain WHliam Shaw, Pittsburg; Brooks Null, engineer, Beverly, O.; Floyd Sills,' engineer, Allegheny, John Bake, pilot... IlwlwaM; Etoarr3M!tchell, mate, MerchantsvUie, - Pa.; 'William Perry, watchman, Roscoe, Pa; David McBridS, deckhand, MIddleport O.; William Campbell fireman; Joseph Williams, Allegheny. The boat was towing sis loaded flats toward Pittsburg, and just after getting out of the lock the explosion happened, and in a very short time the Ailes was burned to the water's edge, "Tom 3ohnson Lost Columbus, O., Feb. 5. The supreme court defeated Tom L. Johnson' ef forts to secure a higher appraisement of the railway property of Ohio. The court handed down a decision sustain ing the demurrer of the attorney gen eral to the petition, and dismissing the petition. The contention of Johnson was to the effect that the state board of equalization- was really a board of appraisement, as well as equalization; that is, that it could increase or d crease the sum total of the valuation of this property, as made by the local boards of appraisement, regardless of their action. 8HOT HIM DEAD. Negr. Mob Believed an Herb Doctor to Be a Conjurer. Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 8. At Glenjean, Fayette county, a mob went to the home of T. Williams, a colored herb doctor, called him to the door and shot falm to deaths but not before he returned the fire. Mose Allen, col onel was found a short distance away. through the stomach. He a.ed later, saying that hewas passing along the road and was struck by a stray bullet Williams was a recent arrival from Tennessee and, ignorant negroes believed him to be a conjurer. ' A Bicycle Sled. Findlay, Ohio, Feb. 5.- Henry Hap pen a young man or tnis city, at tracts great attention with a new fangled bicycle. . In place of a front heel he has arranged a sled-run ner, and around the tire of the rear heel he has a number of spiked strips, that catrh in the snow and ice ind give It a hold. He goes at ' zreat speed on his new steed. Shot in the Breast Findlay, Ohio, Feb. 5. Jesse Calvin was exhibiting a new Winchester rifle to John Ryan when the gun was dis- charged and buried a twenty-two cal- Iber bullet in his chest just over his heart. His condition Is serious. The magazine held 25 cartridges, and Calvin had removed 24. He count ed wrong. , Killed While Hunting. ChUucothe, O., Feb. 6. Jame WO- Ms, a farmer living near Rtekmondate. this county, was insianw muw ' being aocijntay end in uie doo- men by waiter ooy, a neignoor. ineyi saw a raoou ran uuuw uuuuiue, - Coy put his gun through a rail fence CLUBMAN iS SUED FOR A Dili: OHIO CITY SOCIETY SHOCKED B' THE ALLEGATIONS. CAUSES GREAT COMMOTIO Another Case at Wooster, O., In Whic Prominent Families Are Involved and Shocked. Findlay, Ohio, Feb. 5.--On .high ly sensational charges Mrs. Susie L 31 valla has- applied for divorce fror her husband v John T. Sivalls, : wealthy coal dealer, and one of Pint' lay's most prominent citlsens. Tfc petition was filed lata yesterday aU noon, and had Prince Henry hlmsc suddenly appeared no greater com notion could have been ralsfed. Mis 51 vails alleges cruelty and Infldeli;. uid names Mrs. Mabel L. Burket, wl; uurxet, a grocer, and a e iety leader, as co-respondent. . isks for divorce, custody of her chii Iren and $5,000 alimony. Mr. and Mrs. Sivalls- were marrio 18 years ago at Marion, and have si hlldren, the eldest, Miss Leora, bei; v beautiful girl of 17, and the youn est a babe lit arms. Twelve year go they came to this city and at on occupied prominent places In sool.. ind business circles. John Sivalls is counted as one w Hndlay's wealthiest men, and is or-f the biggest coal me in this s Ion of Ohio. He is best known as r. tubman, and has always, at all ttm rod places, been known as a "g fellow." Neighbors, and, until recently goo.! -?rinds of the Slvallses, have l)"" Mr. and Mrs. Harley Burket. A inc ite, vivacious, and brilliant brum - VI ra. Burket soon attracted the susceptible Sivalls Into what is said t 'lave been a more than platonic a." 'ection. There were frequent th - er parties and suppers between tin- two families. The fascination of her pretty His; friend for her husband soon becarm- U'fwent to. JiUk- Sivalls. Her pita ires ceased and she was left at home with the babies, while Burket found 'lis company evidently oppressive to 'lis vivacious little wife. The climax that led to the filing of Ilvorce papers came Sunday night. Slvaiis had gone ostensibly to his lub and Mrs. Burket to church. Mrs. Sivalls was left at home with her children. Suddenly one of the toddlers came to her with a crumpled bit of paper that he had picked up on She floor ; In the handwriting of her friend the wife read "Tonight at 3hulta'sV Realizing the situation' she left her children with , servants and, rushing into Burket's house, placed the evidence of bis wife's actions In his hands. , The man and woman went at once to the wine rooms indicated on the scrap of paper and took up a lonely vigil on the opposite side of the street. They Were soon rewarded by seeing a cab rattle up to the roomB and the pair they were hunting alight and disappear inside the brilliant portal. Burket flew to the police station and with the chief of police rushed Into the wine rooms. The couple was taken to the station but toter released, no charges being pre- ferred. ' - Mrs. Slvall's petition for divorce, however, followed yesterday, and tt is intimated that Burket will bring similar action against his wife today. , Another Case at Wooster. Wooster. Ohio, Feb. 5.-Thls city is at present discussing the most sen sational scandal involving prominent people that has come to the surface in many a day. The parties concerned the J. Frank Runkle, secretary of the Motor Cycle company, of Columbus; his wife. Mrs. Lanra K. Rnnkle, of this city, and Miss Ella Linn, hand-dome young woman who has moved in the first circles, and against whom there was never a word of suspicion.It seems that Mrs. Runkle had sue- pected that her husband was? paying attention to and receiving letters from other women, and one day last week sne went to ijoiumous and, getting Into his room, broke open a valise and there found a package of 64 letters from Miss Linn. V These letters she took to the home of a. relative, and then confronted Runkle With what she had discovered. She says Runkle admitted receiving the Jettters. and money from Miss Linn. Runkle also confessed, so the says, that he had been paying at tentions to Miss Mamie Birmingham of Columbus who supposed that he was a single man. Runkle, as soon as he learned of his wife's discovery-, notified Miss Linn, who at once resigned her position and h ipft thm city Mrs. Runkle ex- peeta to use these letters in ber suit foP dlToroe. Ia ome of the letters Miss Linn i entreated Kunaie 10 cast Mrs. Munste Uside. and beseached him many times coat me aside for your Christmas gift in 1902 you will visit one more mound in Wooster cemetery." Mrs. Runkle says that Runkle admitted Uiat be had been spending money sent him by Miss Linn on bis Columbus sweetheart. Miss Linn's letters go to show that she had been sending him money every week. Miss Linn's conduct has caused the greatest surprise, as she was prominent in church work. The letters in dicate that she has been- enamored of Runkle for more than a year, and all the time was almost daily in the com pany of Mrs. Runkle. Fire In Trunk Factory. Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 5. Fire in the ; Shepler trunk factory, 19 to 23 Huron ! street, broke out last evening. The '. trunk works and stock are totally destroyed, involving a loss of $125,000. : The mercury was three degrees below , zero and the firemen had a frightful experience. A high wind from the west carried immense fire - brand which threatened a large portion of the city at one time. EVERY DO'IE III ins mum 20LUM8U3 MAN MEETS FRIGHT- -s FUL DEATH. '.RAWS INTO HOT AIR FAN sound of Breaking Bones the First Intimation Fellow Workmen Had of Accident, Columbus, Feb. 5. August Koch, an mploye of the Panhandle shops, liv- g at .110 Leonard avenue, met with i frightful death about 6 o'clock this lornlng. He was drawn Into a rapid t revolving hot-air fan at the Pan- mdle shops and the body was liter- Uy crushed, every bone being broken. ' ath was instantaneous. The sound f breaking bones and the stopping of iie fan was the first intimation his '.low workmen had of the accident, ml there were no eyewitnesses. Coroner Lindsay was notified and (-nt to the softie with patrol No, ;i l the body was Temoved to Schoed-iiihta' s undertaking establishment on West State street, where it was pre pared for burial. The deceased was 60 years of age and leaves a family of seven children. , REPUBLICAN SPEAKER8. Thoss Who Will Talk at the Meeting of League of Clubs. Springfield, O., Feb. 6. The' following are the speakers who have accept ed the invitation of the committee to address the meeting of the League 01 Ohio Republican Clubs in this city Feb. 12: Former Governor W. O. Brad ley of Kentucky will speak on "Lin coln" ; Rarph D. Cole of Findlay, O., on . "Legislature"; John P., Green ot Cleveland, "Afro-Americans as Soldiers"; Warren Ot. Harding, "The Newspaper in Politics"; Thorns B, Kyle of Troy, "Ohio in Congress"; Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati, "Mission of Republican Clubs". Majot General Warren O. Kelffer and Harry B. Rosier will have subjects assigned to them. OUT OF COURT Dowis People Settle- Their Dispute. Receiver Dismissed. Chicago, Feb. S. On the announce ment in court by the counsel in ua Dowle-S tep heoaon suit tor receiver ship lace industries that aa agreement had been reached by the parties to the suit out of court. Judge Tuley dismissed the emit and announced that Elmer Washburn, whom he nad named a receiver, would not be appointed. Attorneys for both sides tefused to announce the basis of settlement, but it is supposed that the full amount claimed by Samuel Stephenson, about 1250,000, is close to the amount agreed upon. Stats Knights of Columbus.-Cincinnati, Feb. 5. At the annual convention of the Stat Catholic Knights of Columbus here, the following officers were elected: State deputy, P. J. Brady, Cleveland; secretary, J. E. Kelly. Ashtabula; treasurer, F. B. Beuche, Steuben vllle; advocate, W. II. Dorr, Ti'ln; warden, J. A. O'Dwyer, Toledo; chaplain. Rev. J. H Halllgan, Wells-rtlle, The next convention will be held at Dayton in May, 1903. ' Fire Truck In Collision. Cincinnati, Feb. 5. The Hayes truck of the fire department collided at Seventh and Race with a trolley car. with disastrous results. Five persons were badly hurt, two ot whom. Benjamin Rothkamp, driver of truck, and Charles Rouen, the motorman, will die. poetofMce Robbed. Columbus, O., Feb. 5. Burglars entered the postoffle at Canal Winchester, near this city, and stole $400 worth of postage stamps and $20 in money. The safe was broken open and everything taken that was in it 1 SUIT TELLS Of THE MERGER INTIMATES THERE IS REMEOY ABOVE COURTS. HE IS IN DEAD EARNEST Suggests That Air Appeal May Be Taken to the Court of Public Opinion. St Paul. Minn.. Feb. 5. At half- past 10 o'clock, the legislature, which had been assembled in extra session to receive the report of the tax com-mlslon and the measures presented by that body for enactment heard Governor Van Sant's message. ' The principal portion was devoted to' the recommendation of the com mission to which ,he made com amendments, covering points which were suggested by the commission out not approved by him. After reciting the occasion for the extra session to be the desire to secure a revision of the somewhat mixed tax laws of the state he urged that immediate auuoa on ine matter De taken look ing to tha passage of laws suggest ed ry the commission with such amendments as may be deemed wise He argued against any discrimination, especially speaking against any laws which might make the poor bear an unequal share of the burdens of taxation. He particularly indorsed the suggestion of a permanent tax commission, opposed any reduction in the amount of property exempted from taxation and suggested that the grain tax be made to agree with those of neighboring states . The only other subject discussed is the so-ealled railroad "merger, of which he says: 'At this time I desire to inform the legislature of, the suit brought by the state of Minnesota against the Northern Securities- company of New Jersey. Believing that this corporation was organized for the purpose of xvertlng and violating the laws of Minnesota by' consolidating the properties of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific f companies f which companies run parallel and are competing lines of ..!! wy wi'' 'n Vre state,, I , requeatttd Attorney General Douglass to bring suit in -the name of the state to prevent such consol idations . He then quotes from the statutes covering the case and continues: That the Northern Securities com pany can and if not prevented by the courts, will merge or consolidate the lines and property of the .two railroad companies under, management is ev4- ienced by reference to the articles of ncorporatlon. , Knowing that several other states In addition to Minnesota would be affected by this consolidation and that the declared public policy of such states through constitutional or legis lative provisions was similar to that of our state, I deemed it wise to all a conference ot the governors and ittorneys general of the states through which the lines of railway Jags, in order that such method of procedure might be adopted as would be uniform. This conference was held at Helena, Mont. " He recited the argument before that court on January 27 and added: "What the final decision will be, it is difficult to foretell but it does not leem possible that a New Jersey corporation, no matter what its capital ization, will be permitted to violate he laws of the sovereign state of Minnesota. If the final decision should be against the state the battle is not then lost. There is a remedy that sever fails which is more supreme even than the supreme court. I quote the words of Judge Brewer in an ad- iress made at the bi-centennial of Vale college in which he said in peaking of the trusts and the inabil ity of the courts to crush them "ap peal must be taken to the great court of public opinion whose decrees are rreslstable. In that court every man is counsel and every man is judge." , THE BIG TRUST WINS. Ohio Farmer Losee Suit to Oust Them From His Farm. Findlay, Ohio, Feb. 6. The Ohio Oil company, the producing branch of he Standard, Von a suit brought against it by Jeremiah Ewing, a farmer, who tried to oust them from his farm, on which they held a fifteen year lease. The lease contained a clause that the company should be permitted to operate the farm "for 15 years or as long as oil or gas were found in paying quanti ties." This Ewing tried to have abrogated. The lease yields $2,000 each month, and in the life of the lease the Ohio has paid to Ewing upward of $65,000. The esse will be carried op. .PHILLIPPS'8 SUCCESSOR. Jame R. Fitzgibbone I Named as Licking County Prosecutor., Newark, Ohio, Feb. 5. Prosecuting Attorney Phillips's resignation was accepted and James R. Fitxgibbon was appointed today to succeed him. MI8S ROOSEVELT WILL GO. President Consents and She Will Take in the Coronation. Washington, Feb. 5. It Is under stood that President Roosevelt : has granted the request of his daughter, Miss Alice Roosevelt, to accompany the special American embassador and bis suite on the occasion of the cor onation of King Edward. She will he under the Immediate care of Com mander and Mrs. Cowlea, the former of whom will be aide to Captain Clarke, the American naval repreeen- tativ. Mrs. Cowlea is Mis Roose velt's aunt. Kitted in Sawmill Near Columbus, Lockbourne, Ohio, Feb. 6. -Herbert Thomas was killed at Sparks' saw mill near here today while engaged in , putting a belt on a fly wheel. He became caught in the wheel and was hurled to Instant death. Thomas was unmarried. GIVES FORTUNE TO lESVILLEBOI LAVI8HES GIFTS ON "PRETTY NONNIE STEWART." S MAYOR HCLDErTS NIECE Billy" Leeds Give a $500,000 Yacht to Hi Wife Only On ef Wealth of Present. Chicago, Feb. 6. W. B. Leeds, the multimillionaire president of the Rock Island road, who is said to have paid his first wife $1,000,000 when she got her divorce from him, and. who immediately married Nonnie May Stewart Worthington of Cleveland,-(who is also a niece or Mayor James Holden of Zanesville), has just given his second wife a $500,000 yacht. The boat, which is said to be one ot the fastest ocean-going yachts In the world, is already., compW-l, ! it is Mrar'l.-i1s 'ftisj -v'i'X r, Tuesday, break the bottle of champagne over its brow at Fort Rich mond.' States Island. Since their return from their honeymoon, which was spent in Europe, Mr. and Mrs. Leeds have lived in New York, where they occupy a house, which, with the lot cost the magnificent sum of $1,700,000. Twenty years ago he was a railroad clerk at a salary of $50 a month. December 12 "of last year he was elected president of the Chicago, Rock Island A Pacific Railway company at a salary of $50,000 a year. Mr. Leeds' palatial yacht the Cetoah, was used for the honeymoon, and during the trip abroad, which followed the cruise, he presented his bride with gifts of fabulous cost A pearl necklace valued at $65,000 was one of the baubles he bought for her, and there was a $50,000 diamond necklace, aa ermine wrap which cost $10,000 and any number of other extravagant gifts. His first wife was also aa Ohio woman. ' Pupil Turn on Teacher. -'Mt Gilead, Ohio, Feb. S. John W. Whitford, the principal ef the Blooming Grove schools, attempting to chas tise Leonard Gartner and four of his companions, was turned upoa; and now suffers from a couple of "saddle rock" eyes, a dislocated shoulder and two or three fractured ribs. He was Uhrown out of the door and the lock turned on him. Whitford claims the act was instigated by elder heads and has filed suit for $10,000 damages. MinSr and Operator Confer. Indianapolis, Feb. 6. The sub committee of miners and operators are today considering wage scale. The Ohio miners are represented by F. H. Haskins and D. Sullivan and tho operators by H. L. Chap mas and J. H. "Winder. St Louis Exhibits Not Ready For t90X Washington, Feb. 5. The Presi dent has been informed that foreign exhibits will not be read" if the St. Louis fair is held la 1903. Bill Paseed For Publie Baths. Columbus, Ohio, Feb. S. The house of representatives today passed the Johnston bill making an appropriation for publie baths in the city ef Cleveland. Riddle Boy Bufrted. Pittsburg. Feb. 5. The Blddle boys were buried this morning by their brother Harry, in a double grsve. Only a few were present. Mrs. Soffel is improving. WEATHER FOR OHIO Washington, Feb. E. Forecast for Ohio Increasing cloudiness tonigbt: probably snow with rising temperature. Thifrsday, snow ai)d warmer.

- ') n o VOL 39 NO. 3. ZANESVILLE. OHIO. THUHSCA FEBRUARY 6, 1902. 75 CENTS A YEAR. o JSV A. A. A FIGHTING FLAMES BUILDING COLLAPSED' DURING 3T. LOUIS BLAZE. NINE FIREMEN ARE CRUSHED V Structure Gave Way Without Warning Burying Gallant Lad Beneath the Debris. St. Louis, Feb. S. -A Are broke out in the 5-stary stone and brick building located at 314 Chestnut street, occupied by the American Tent ana Awning company. While the firemen were fighting the blaze, the structure suddenly collapsed, killing at least nine firemen and -injuring half a dosen more. The dead: August Thiery, rst - assistant chief; Michael Kehoe, assistant of Company 13; Daniel Steel, foreman of Company 12; William Dundon, pipeman; Charles Krening, plpeman; Patrick Herein, assistant foreman: three, ripemen, names unknown. Bert. ousVy injured: Frank Lingo, driver of i aerial truck; Monroe Moore, Patrick McCarthy, William Julleb and William Wand, firemen. . The building in which the fire orig inated was located In the aid business section of the city, and was about 50 years old. The blaze, which proved bard one for the fire department to master, had been gotten practically undr control, when suddenly, with ab- solutelyno warning, It collapsed and came down in a heap with a noise that could be heard for blocks. Three pipe men at work on the second Boot had difficulty in managing a line of hose, and Assistant Chief Thiery was on his way with three of his men to lend them aid when the bunding col lapsed. The men went down with tons v of twisted Iron, brick, stone and wooden columns enveloping them. Chief Swihgley, who was in front of the building directing bis men, had a miraculous escape from death. As the front wall fell outward he scurried across the street and fell under this aerial truck. The truck -was covered with debris and partly wrecked, and it is to its sheltering protection the tiMiH itu;iV jiriver of the truck, was directing a streamon the , fire from the aerial ladder, about 40 feet' from the ground, when the wall fell. A portion of tha debris struck him. and he was hurled through the air to the ground, receiving probably , fatal la- Juries. Chief Swingley put his entire force to work at once in an effort to rescue the burled firemen, but although the men worked like demons they have not been able to reach them. - It Is a certainty that all are1 dead, as tons of debris cover then.'' Folowtog is a list of the losses: American Tent and Awning company, f 25,000; McLean estate, loss on building, $35,000; Her man Ruppelt, Job printer, $10,000; scattering, $5,000. MRS. SOFFEL'S REQUE8T. Dee Not Want Punishment Administered at Her Old Horns. Butler, Pa., Feb. 6. Mrs. Peter Sof-fel desire a change of venue when she faces trial. She tearfully made this request of Assistant District Attorney John B. Robb, Jr., of Allegheny county, in the hospital here. She said she la' willing to meet any fate the law may place upon her, but does not want the punishment administered in the courthouse across the street from her old home. Mr. Soffel told the attorney that she had been charged with crime against the state; she had never .mned. She pleaded that her act was brought about through her sympathy for the Biddies and not her lore. Mr. Robb told her he was a friend of her husband and would like to lighten the burden of his Sorrow and disgrace, but could not make any definite promise to her at this time. SLEEPWALKER FREEZES. Found Desd In Night Clothes Lying in Fence Corner, Washington, Ind., Feb. 5. Clad only in his night clothes Robert Haydon aged 80, was found in a fence corner yesterday frozen to death. He resided with Joseph Williams, 12 miles southeast of this city, retired at the usual time Monday night and his Absence from the house was not discovered until yesterday, when Mrs. Williams went to his room to call him for breakfast. Mr. Haydon was a somnambulist, .,r 4 KoiioH tht t walked out of, the house while asleep, and when he awoke he could not find nis way back to the house. Shortage Discovered. Arcanum, O, Feb. 6. Webb Thompson, assistant cashier of the First National bank, is charged with being . i u. '.wnt. iumu-It J4.600. He I wes one of the most prominent and best tboueht of men in the town. State Examiner Alcorn of Cincinnati discov- eted the shortage. Thompson finally J acknowledged the defalcation and J promised that he would make good I to pass a. va wiuis, wnen iao sua i to tans ner ana mae ner lorever nsp-,ha , I discharged. Willis leaves' a family, jpy. In one letter she said: "If you THAT BID TO KRUGER. Tranavaal League Official Discusses It ProbabI Effect Chicago, Feb. 6. Referring to the resolution offered la congress by Rep resentative Cochran, invlting President Kruger of the South African re public to visit the United States as the guest or the nation, Peter Van VHssingen, treasurer of the Chicago branch , American Transvaal league. said: "If the resolution Is adopted ft will have a powerful influence for good In the peace negotiations now pending. Rewiring President Kroger in hie o racial capacity would be notice to the world that the United State does not look upon paper annexations as final while there is an effective force in the Held. To thus show our friendship for the Boers would have a great moral Influence in Great Britain, where the masses are tooled Into be ttering that the sympathies of the peo ple of this country are with England In the war. Shatter this belief and you remove the main support of Cham berlain and bis adherent. BROOKS HULL E BEVERLY MAN MEMBER OF THE ILL-FATED CREW. "' , r"" TOW BOAT BOILERS EXPLODt The "J. W. Ailes" Wrecked In Lock No. J at Pittsburg Many Vic tlms From Ohio. Pittsburg, Feb. 6. At about 1:15 a. m., just as the Pittsburg harbor tow- boat J. W. Ailes had passed through lock No. i, her boilers exploded throwing her crew of 14 in all direc tions. Three of the crew are known to be fatally hurt, and only five others have been accounted for. Fatally In jured: ' Joseph Rankin, deckhand 'Brownie," watchman; Mrs. Maria Walker, colored, cook. All are horrl bly scalded and burned. The other members of the crew are: Captain WHliam Shaw, Pittsburg; Brooks Null, engineer, Beverly, O.; Floyd Sills,' engineer, Allegheny, John Bake, pilot... IlwlwaM; Etoarr3M!tchell, mate, MerchantsvUie, - Pa.; 'William Perry, watchman, Roscoe, Pa; David McBridS, deckhand, MIddleport O.; William Campbell fireman; Joseph Williams, Allegheny. The boat was towing sis loaded flats toward Pittsburg, and just after getting out of the lock the explosion happened, and in a very short time the Ailes was burned to the water's edge, "Tom 3ohnson Lost Columbus, O., Feb. 5. The supreme court defeated Tom L. Johnson' ef forts to secure a higher appraisement of the railway property of Ohio. The court handed down a decision sustain ing the demurrer of the attorney gen eral to the petition, and dismissing the petition. The contention of Johnson was to the effect that the state board of equalization- was really a board of appraisement, as well as equalization; that is, that it could increase or d crease the sum total of the valuation of this property, as made by the local boards of appraisement, regardless of their action. 8HOT HIM DEAD. Negr. Mob Believed an Herb Doctor to Be a Conjurer. Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 8. At Glenjean, Fayette county, a mob went to the home of T. Williams, a colored herb doctor, called him to the door and shot falm to deaths but not before he returned the fire. Mose Allen, col onel was found a short distance away. through the stomach. He a.ed later, saying that hewas passing along the road and was struck by a stray bullet Williams was a recent arrival from Tennessee and, ignorant negroes believed him to be a conjurer. ' A Bicycle Sled. Findlay, Ohio, Feb. 5.- Henry Hap pen a young man or tnis city, at tracts great attention with a new fangled bicycle. . In place of a front heel he has arranged a sled-run ner, and around the tire of the rear heel he has a number of spiked strips, that catrh in the snow and ice ind give It a hold. He goes at ' zreat speed on his new steed. Shot in the Breast Findlay, Ohio, Feb. 5. Jesse Calvin was exhibiting a new Winchester rifle to John Ryan when the gun was dis- charged and buried a twenty-two cal- Iber bullet in his chest just over his heart. His condition Is serious. The magazine held 25 cartridges, and Calvin had removed 24. He count ed wrong. , Killed While Hunting. ChUucothe, O., Feb. 6. Jame WO- Ms, a farmer living near Rtekmondate. this county, was insianw muw ' being aocijntay end in uie doo- men by waiter ooy, a neignoor. ineyi saw a raoou ran uuuw uuuuiue, - Coy put his gun through a rail fence CLUBMAN iS SUED FOR A Dili: OHIO CITY SOCIETY SHOCKED B' THE ALLEGATIONS. CAUSES GREAT COMMOTIO Another Case at Wooster, O., In Whic Prominent Families Are Involved and Shocked. Findlay, Ohio, Feb. 5.--On .high ly sensational charges Mrs. Susie L 31 valla has- applied for divorce fror her husband v John T. Sivalls, : wealthy coal dealer, and one of Pint' lay's most prominent citlsens. Tfc petition was filed lata yesterday aU noon, and had Prince Henry hlmsc suddenly appeared no greater com notion could have been ralsfed. Mis 51 vails alleges cruelty and Infldeli;. uid names Mrs. Mabel L. Burket, wl; uurxet, a grocer, and a e iety leader, as co-respondent. . isks for divorce, custody of her chii Iren and $5,000 alimony. Mr. and Mrs. Sivalls- were marrio 18 years ago at Marion, and have si hlldren, the eldest, Miss Leora, bei; v beautiful girl of 17, and the youn est a babe lit arms. Twelve year go they came to this city and at on occupied prominent places In sool.. ind business circles. John Sivalls is counted as one w Hndlay's wealthiest men, and is or-f the biggest coal me in this s Ion of Ohio. He is best known as r. tubman, and has always, at all ttm rod places, been known as a "g fellow." Neighbors, and, until recently goo.! -?rinds of the Slvallses, have l)"" Mr. and Mrs. Harley Burket. A inc ite, vivacious, and brilliant brum - VI ra. Burket soon attracted the susceptible Sivalls Into what is said t 'lave been a more than platonic a." 'ection. There were frequent th - er parties and suppers between tin- two families. The fascination of her pretty His; friend for her husband soon becarm- U'fwent to. JiUk- Sivalls. Her pita ires ceased and she was left at home with the babies, while Burket found 'lis company evidently oppressive to 'lis vivacious little wife. The climax that led to the filing of Ilvorce papers came Sunday night. Slvaiis had gone ostensibly to his lub and Mrs. Burket to church. Mrs. Sivalls was left at home with her children. Suddenly one of the toddlers came to her with a crumpled bit of paper that he had picked up on She floor ; In the handwriting of her friend the wife read "Tonight at 3hulta'sV Realizing the situation' she left her children with , servants and, rushing into Burket's house, placed the evidence of bis wife's actions In his hands. , The man and woman went at once to the wine rooms indicated on the scrap of paper and took up a lonely vigil on the opposite side of the street. They Were soon rewarded by seeing a cab rattle up to the roomB and the pair they were hunting alight and disappear inside the brilliant portal. Burket flew to the police station and with the chief of police rushed Into the wine rooms. The couple was taken to the station but toter released, no charges being pre- ferred. ' - Mrs. Slvall's petition for divorce, however, followed yesterday, and tt is intimated that Burket will bring similar action against his wife today. , Another Case at Wooster. Wooster. Ohio, Feb. 5.-Thls city is at present discussing the most sen sational scandal involving prominent people that has come to the surface in many a day. The parties concerned the J. Frank Runkle, secretary of the Motor Cycle company, of Columbus; his wife. Mrs. Lanra K. Rnnkle, of this city, and Miss Ella Linn, hand-dome young woman who has moved in the first circles, and against whom there was never a word of suspicion.It seems that Mrs. Runkle had sue- pected that her husband was? paying attention to and receiving letters from other women, and one day last week sne went to ijoiumous and, getting Into his room, broke open a valise and there found a package of 64 letters from Miss Linn. V These letters she took to the home of a. relative, and then confronted Runkle With what she had discovered. She says Runkle admitted receiving the Jettters. and money from Miss Linn. Runkle also confessed, so the says, that he had been paying at tentions to Miss Mamie Birmingham of Columbus who supposed that he was a single man. Runkle, as soon as he learned of his wife's discovery-, notified Miss Linn, who at once resigned her position and h ipft thm city Mrs. Runkle ex- peeta to use these letters in ber suit foP dlToroe. Ia ome of the letters Miss Linn i entreated Kunaie 10 cast Mrs. Munste Uside. and beseached him many times coat me aside for your Christmas gift in 1902 you will visit one more mound in Wooster cemetery." Mrs. Runkle says that Runkle admitted Uiat be had been spending money sent him by Miss Linn on bis Columbus sweetheart. Miss Linn's letters go to show that she had been sending him money every week. Miss Linn's conduct has caused the greatest surprise, as she was prominent in church work. The letters in dicate that she has been- enamored of Runkle for more than a year, and all the time was almost daily in the com pany of Mrs. Runkle. Fire In Trunk Factory. Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 5. Fire in the ; Shepler trunk factory, 19 to 23 Huron ! street, broke out last evening. The '. trunk works and stock are totally destroyed, involving a loss of $125,000. : The mercury was three degrees below , zero and the firemen had a frightful experience. A high wind from the west carried immense fire - brand which threatened a large portion of the city at one time. EVERY DO'IE III ins mum 20LUM8U3 MAN MEETS FRIGHT- -s FUL DEATH. '.RAWS INTO HOT AIR FAN sound of Breaking Bones the First Intimation Fellow Workmen Had of Accident, Columbus, Feb. 5. August Koch, an mploye of the Panhandle shops, liv- g at .110 Leonard avenue, met with i frightful death about 6 o'clock this lornlng. He was drawn Into a rapid t revolving hot-air fan at the Pan- mdle shops and the body was liter- Uy crushed, every bone being broken. ' ath was instantaneous. The sound f breaking bones and the stopping of iie fan was the first intimation his '.low workmen had of the accident, ml there were no eyewitnesses. Coroner Lindsay was notified and (-nt to the softie with patrol No, ;i l the body was Temoved to Schoed-iiihta' s undertaking establishment on West State street, where it was pre pared for burial. The deceased was 60 years of age and leaves a family of seven children. , REPUBLICAN SPEAKER8. Thoss Who Will Talk at the Meeting of League of Clubs. Springfield, O., Feb. 6. The' following are the speakers who have accept ed the invitation of the committee to address the meeting of the League 01 Ohio Republican Clubs in this city Feb. 12: Former Governor W. O. Brad ley of Kentucky will speak on "Lin coln" ; Rarph D. Cole of Findlay, O., on . "Legislature"; John P., Green ot Cleveland, "Afro-Americans as Soldiers"; Warren Ot. Harding, "The Newspaper in Politics"; Thorns B, Kyle of Troy, "Ohio in Congress"; Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati, "Mission of Republican Clubs". Majot General Warren O. Kelffer and Harry B. Rosier will have subjects assigned to them. OUT OF COURT Dowis People Settle- Their Dispute. Receiver Dismissed. Chicago, Feb. S. On the announce ment in court by the counsel in ua Dowle-S tep heoaon suit tor receiver ship lace industries that aa agreement had been reached by the parties to the suit out of court. Judge Tuley dismissed the emit and announced that Elmer Washburn, whom he nad named a receiver, would not be appointed. Attorneys for both sides tefused to announce the basis of settlement, but it is supposed that the full amount claimed by Samuel Stephenson, about 1250,000, is close to the amount agreed upon. Stats Knights of Columbus.-Cincinnati, Feb. 5. At the annual convention of the Stat Catholic Knights of Columbus here, the following officers were elected: State deputy, P. J. Brady, Cleveland; secretary, J. E. Kelly. Ashtabula; treasurer, F. B. Beuche, Steuben vllle; advocate, W. II. Dorr, Ti'ln; warden, J. A. O'Dwyer, Toledo; chaplain. Rev. J. H Halllgan, Wells-rtlle, The next convention will be held at Dayton in May, 1903. ' Fire Truck In Collision. Cincinnati, Feb. 5. The Hayes truck of the fire department collided at Seventh and Race with a trolley car. with disastrous results. Five persons were badly hurt, two ot whom. Benjamin Rothkamp, driver of truck, and Charles Rouen, the motorman, will die. poetofMce Robbed. Columbus, O., Feb. 5. Burglars entered the postoffle at Canal Winchester, near this city, and stole $400 worth of postage stamps and $20 in money. The safe was broken open and everything taken that was in it 1 SUIT TELLS Of THE MERGER INTIMATES THERE IS REMEOY ABOVE COURTS. HE IS IN DEAD EARNEST Suggests That Air Appeal May Be Taken to the Court of Public Opinion. St Paul. Minn.. Feb. 5. At half- past 10 o'clock, the legislature, which had been assembled in extra session to receive the report of the tax com-mlslon and the measures presented by that body for enactment heard Governor Van Sant's message. ' The principal portion was devoted to' the recommendation of the com mission to which ,he made com amendments, covering points which were suggested by the commission out not approved by him. After reciting the occasion for the extra session to be the desire to secure a revision of the somewhat mixed tax laws of the state he urged that immediate auuoa on ine matter De taken look ing to tha passage of laws suggest ed ry the commission with such amendments as may be deemed wise He argued against any discrimination, especially speaking against any laws which might make the poor bear an unequal share of the burdens of taxation. He particularly indorsed the suggestion of a permanent tax commission, opposed any reduction in the amount of property exempted from taxation and suggested that the grain tax be made to agree with those of neighboring states . The only other subject discussed is the so-ealled railroad "merger, of which he says: 'At this time I desire to inform the legislature of, the suit brought by the state of Minnesota against the Northern Securities- company of New Jersey. Believing that this corporation was organized for the purpose of xvertlng and violating the laws of Minnesota by' consolidating the properties of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific f companies f which companies run parallel and are competing lines of ..!! wy wi'' 'n Vre state,, I , requeatttd Attorney General Douglass to bring suit in -the name of the state to prevent such consol idations . He then quotes from the statutes covering the case and continues: That the Northern Securities com pany can and if not prevented by the courts, will merge or consolidate the lines and property of the .two railroad companies under, management is ev4- ienced by reference to the articles of ncorporatlon. , Knowing that several other states In addition to Minnesota would be affected by this consolidation and that the declared public policy of such states through constitutional or legis lative provisions was similar to that of our state, I deemed it wise to all a conference ot the governors and ittorneys general of the states through which the lines of railway Jags, in order that such method of procedure might be adopted as would be uniform. This conference was held at Helena, Mont. " He recited the argument before that court on January 27 and added: "What the final decision will be, it is difficult to foretell but it does not leem possible that a New Jersey corporation, no matter what its capital ization, will be permitted to violate he laws of the sovereign state of Minnesota. If the final decision should be against the state the battle is not then lost. There is a remedy that sever fails which is more supreme even than the supreme court. I quote the words of Judge Brewer in an ad- iress made at the bi-centennial of Vale college in which he said in peaking of the trusts and the inabil ity of the courts to crush them "ap peal must be taken to the great court of public opinion whose decrees are rreslstable. In that court every man is counsel and every man is judge." , THE BIG TRUST WINS. Ohio Farmer Losee Suit to Oust Them From His Farm. Findlay, Ohio, Feb. 6. The Ohio Oil company, the producing branch of he Standard, Von a suit brought against it by Jeremiah Ewing, a farmer, who tried to oust them from his farm, on which they held a fifteen year lease. The lease contained a clause that the company should be permitted to operate the farm "for 15 years or as long as oil or gas were found in paying quanti ties." This Ewing tried to have abrogated. The lease yields $2,000 each month, and in the life of the lease the Ohio has paid to Ewing upward of $65,000. The esse will be carried op. .PHILLIPPS'8 SUCCESSOR. Jame R. Fitzgibbone I Named as Licking County Prosecutor., Newark, Ohio, Feb. 5. Prosecuting Attorney Phillips's resignation was accepted and James R. Fitxgibbon was appointed today to succeed him. MI8S ROOSEVELT WILL GO. President Consents and She Will Take in the Coronation. Washington, Feb. 5. It Is under stood that President Roosevelt : has granted the request of his daughter, Miss Alice Roosevelt, to accompany the special American embassador and bis suite on the occasion of the cor onation of King Edward. She will he under the Immediate care of Com mander and Mrs. Cowlea, the former of whom will be aide to Captain Clarke, the American naval repreeen- tativ. Mrs. Cowlea is Mis Roose velt's aunt. Kitted in Sawmill Near Columbus, Lockbourne, Ohio, Feb. 6. -Herbert Thomas was killed at Sparks' saw mill near here today while engaged in , putting a belt on a fly wheel. He became caught in the wheel and was hurled to Instant death. Thomas was unmarried. GIVES FORTUNE TO lESVILLEBOI LAVI8HES GIFTS ON "PRETTY NONNIE STEWART." S MAYOR HCLDErTS NIECE Billy" Leeds Give a $500,000 Yacht to Hi Wife Only On ef Wealth of Present. Chicago, Feb. 6. W. B. Leeds, the multimillionaire president of the Rock Island road, who is said to have paid his first wife $1,000,000 when she got her divorce from him, and. who immediately married Nonnie May Stewart Worthington of Cleveland,-(who is also a niece or Mayor James Holden of Zanesville), has just given his second wife a $500,000 yacht. The boat, which is said to be one ot the fastest ocean-going yachts In the world, is already., compW-l, ! it is Mrar'l.-i1s 'ftisj -v'i'X r, Tuesday, break the bottle of champagne over its brow at Fort Rich mond.' States Island. Since their return from their honeymoon, which was spent in Europe, Mr. and Mrs. Leeds have lived in New York, where they occupy a house, which, with the lot cost the magnificent sum of $1,700,000. Twenty years ago he was a railroad clerk at a salary of $50 a month. December 12 "of last year he was elected president of the Chicago, Rock Island A Pacific Railway company at a salary of $50,000 a year. Mr. Leeds' palatial yacht the Cetoah, was used for the honeymoon, and during the trip abroad, which followed the cruise, he presented his bride with gifts of fabulous cost A pearl necklace valued at $65,000 was one of the baubles he bought for her, and there was a $50,000 diamond necklace, aa ermine wrap which cost $10,000 and any number of other extravagant gifts. His first wife was also aa Ohio woman. ' Pupil Turn on Teacher. -'Mt Gilead, Ohio, Feb. S. John W. Whitford, the principal ef the Blooming Grove schools, attempting to chas tise Leonard Gartner and four of his companions, was turned upoa; and now suffers from a couple of "saddle rock" eyes, a dislocated shoulder and two or three fractured ribs. He was Uhrown out of the door and the lock turned on him. Whitford claims the act was instigated by elder heads and has filed suit for $10,000 damages. MinSr and Operator Confer. Indianapolis, Feb. 6. The sub committee of miners and operators are today considering wage scale. The Ohio miners are represented by F. H. Haskins and D. Sullivan and tho operators by H. L. Chap mas and J. H. "Winder. St Louis Exhibits Not Ready For t90X Washington, Feb. 5. The Presi dent has been informed that foreign exhibits will not be read" if the St. Louis fair is held la 1903. Bill Paseed For Publie Baths. Columbus, Ohio, Feb. S. The house of representatives today passed the Johnston bill making an appropriation for publie baths in the city ef Cleveland. Riddle Boy Bufrted. Pittsburg. Feb. 5. The Blddle boys were buried this morning by their brother Harry, in a double grsve. Only a few were present. Mrs. Soffel is improving. WEATHER FOR OHIO Washington, Feb. E. Forecast for Ohio Increasing cloudiness tonigbt: probably snow with rising temperature. Thifrsday, snow ai)d warmer.